But Andy, you're still missing the point
...
<<Faraday's upbringing is crucial to understanding his body
of work.>>
Faraday's upbringing may be
crucial to understanding the *history* of his work, but I
can talk to you all day about Faraday's Law and other
work without knowing a darn thing about his
bookbinding experiences.
If such a question were
labeled as history, so be it. But let's not pretend that
a question focusing on Faraday's Law or his general
body of work is made any better by the inclusion of
such trivia irrelevant to science as a
whole.
The laws of science exist independently of the people
who discovered/named them. I'm sure E.T. has his own
names for all of Maxwell's Equations. "Xanar'xey's
Equations", anyone?
-- eps